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Full-time jobs for U.S. citizens or permanent residents will count. Generally, 35-hour per week jobs count. The positions are actually what USCIS looks at, so you do not need to have the same person hold the position.

The employees for direct EB-5 investment must be new employees as a result of the EB-5 investment and be U.S. workers working a full 40-hour week. Normally, they would have to work directly for the job creating entity in which the investment was made.

Direct employees have to be employed directly (on W2s) by the New Commercial Enterprise. Work performed by employees of other companies is considered "indirect." Full-time employment usually means 35+ hours and benefits normally allotted to full-time workers.

Only full-time employment (>35hours/week) counts toward the 10 requisite jobs created. The jobs must be newly created as a direct result of the investment made in the commercial enterprise.

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